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News Archive 2015-2016 and Before...

NEWS ARCHIVE

Academic Year 2015-16 and Before...

Winter 2016

Great news......Dr. Nancy Carlisle joined the faculty in the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in January 2016. She has a fresh paper with collaborators at Oklahoma State University.

Congratulations to Almut Hupbach! Her symposium for the international conference on memory (ICOM) in Budapest this summer got chosen by the Psychonomic society as their 2016 collaborative symposium (i.e., they will sponsor it). Check out the link!

Barbara Malt was awarded a grant from the journal Language Learning for her project “Dynamic Updating of Native Speaker Knowledge”.

Fall 2015

Congratulations to Almut Hupbach who was promoted to Associate Professor in May after the board of trustees meeting. This Fall she starts the exciting next phase of her career as a tenured faculty member in Lehigh's psychology department.

The department successfully hosted its conference honoring Donald Campbell on September 10 and 11.

The Lehigh survey, put together by a 4 member team including the department's own professors Burke, Moskowitz, and Packer, was administered to the entire institution. In winter the results detailing the insitutional climate will be posted.

Mark Bickhard was elected as a Fellow of The American Psychological Association, Division 7: Developmental Psychology. Congratulations to Mark!!

Mark was also the keynote speaker for Situating Cognition: Agency, Affect, and Extension at The Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, on October 16, 2015, and delivered the talk “Representing as an agentive activity, not a structure” http://trends.avant.edu.pl.

Winter 2015

Jessecae Marsh was announced the winner of the prestigious College of Arts and Sciences teaching award. The ceremony honoring Dr. Marsh is March 26, 2015. CONGRATULATIONS!!

Three members of the department -- Lucy Napper, Amanda Brandone, and Jessecae Marsh -- are recipients of the Paul J. Franz, Jr. and Class of 1968 Junior Faculty Fellowships.

Almut Hupbach was in the news discussing the role of false memory in the case of suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams' alleged false reporting relating to a 2003 helicopter downing in Iraq. Her OpEd originally appeared in The Conversation and then was reprinted by NewsWeek. Check it out! http://www.newsweek.com/brian-williams-bald-lies-or-false-m…

Faculty members Burke, Moskowitz, and Packer are leading the team of scientists to fashion the Lehigh response to the investigation held by the US Office of Civil Rights (OCR). An annual survey of Lehigh faculty, staff, and students is being constructed by the team, guided by the expertise in the psychology of prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, and group relations from these psychology department scholars.

The department's offer of a new faculty position to Dr. Nancy Carlisle has been accepted! Dr. Carlisle will join the faculty in January 2016 and continue the department's growth and strength in the area of cognitive neuroscience. With interest in neuroscience on the rise among students at Lehigh, psychology is rising to meet this demand with the support of CAS and Dean Hall.

Delivered invited colloquia at the University of Aarhus, Aarhus Denmark and the Center for Human Interactivity at the University of Southern Denmark

Amanda BrandoneWas awarded a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health: “Contributions of motor and social milestones to infants’ intention understanding“

Michael Gill Published two papers with his former Ph.D. student, Michael Andreychik:

Andreychik, M. R. & Gill, M. J. (in press). Do natural kind beliefs about social groups contribute to prejudice?: Distinguishing bio-somatic from bio-behavioral essentialism, and both of these from entitatvity. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

Presented at three symposia: 1) the International Society for Justice Research conference in NYC, 2) the European Association of Social Psychology conference in Amsterdam, 3) the Person Memory Interest Group Meeting in College Corner, Ohio.

Received funding from the Templeton Foundation for his work (with Dominic Packer and Jay Van Bavel) on "When and how moral beliefs give purpose to moral action: A dynamic model of moral decision-making."

Gordon MoskowitzWas awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health (Minority Health and Health Disparities) for his collaborative work with Jeff Stone and Matthias Mehl of the University of Arizona. They are examining implicit stereotyping and its contribution to disparities that emerge in medical interactions.

Dominic PackerReceived funding from the Templeton Foundation for his work (with Mike Gill and Jay Van Bavel): "When and how moral beliefs give purpose to moral action: A dynamic model of moral decision-making."

Ageliki presents a paper at the Jean Piaget Society meeting in San Franscisco

Nicolopoulou, A. Narrative development in social context: The role of peer group processes. Invited talk presented in invited symposium on “Rethinking Language and Communicative Development”. Jean Piaget Society annual meeting (San Francisco: May 29-31, 2014).

Chris Burke publishes a paper with his colleague Gwen Seidman in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships on how being idealized or derogated by one's partner predicts responses to daily conflict in romantic relationships.

Kate Arrington, Barbara Malt, Almut Hupbach, Jessecae Marsh, and Pat O’Seaghdha as well as graduate students Alexandra Frazer, Amy Lebkuecher, Kaitlin Reiman, former graduate student Rachel Jobe, and former undergraduate student Kimberly Preusse present at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Toronto in November 2013. Details about our individual presentations can be found here.

Jessecae Marsh received a faculty research grant from Lehigh University for her project “Defining the Lay Concept of Mental Illness”.

Nicolopoulou, A. Using a narrative- and play-based intervention to promote school readiness among preschoolers. Paper presented at the 16th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (Lausanne, Switzerland: Sept. 3-7, 2013.)